Domaine des Lauriers, Picpoul de Pinet 2008

My darling girlfriend made some chirashi sushi for dinner, thus I decided to try a white bottle for change...

I tasted Picpoul (also a grape variety) once before and remembered it as a tasty, sharp wine, kind of along the lines of Pignoletto or Grüner Veltliner. This $12 bottle was different: much bigger and meaner, lots of personality, not necessarily the way I like it though.

Medium to full body, greenish straw color (in the picture you see mostly condensation on the glass surface), mineral all the way. Bouquet of honeydew melon. Taste ways I got citrus/lime which abruptly turns into intense, chewy licorice with notes of schist, almost muddy.

Not my thing, but I respect it:). Boiled artichoke would be my optimal food match.